Can you be too intelligent?

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Edit - Posted in the wrong thread, apparently too much intelligence is not my problem!

Intelligence is the ability to learn.

Knowing stuff is knowledge.

I am going to try and bear this in mind in future. I admire your ability to be positive. I think it may have more to do with personality then rather than intelligence. Upbringing may also play a role. I was brough up by two people who don't like other people so I was raised to view people in a negative light. It is very difficult for me to go against the grain, so to speak. I genuinely do have to force myself to think positively. I envy the person that is so able to be positive that they would need to force themself to be negative.

No one actually does. We have rough estimates, around 7.34 billion for 2015 and still growing

Well I guess I don't have that problem. I can't do algebra and I've always been really bad at math, and I've never played a game of chess and I can't even finish a game of checkers without getting bored and frustrated. I've been told I'm intelligent, but that that was years ago and neither I nor anyone else knew how much the world was going to change a couple of decades later so that my talent and what I *do* know a lot about aren't important anymore. If they ever were important.

Stupid clickbait title. The article is based on vague, iffy definitions of "clever," "intelligent," "reason," and probably other words.

I think this article interested me in the first place because I manipulated the course of my CBT therapy. I knew what the therapist wanted me to say, so I said that. It was like passing a test a school.

CBT isn't meant to be done like that.

I needed someone more intelligent to guide me through it and make me do it properly. Or maybe I am too clever for CBT. Maybe it just doesn't work for some of us.

Or maybe you just needed to do your part properly? There's nothing clever about sabotaging your own therapy by saying whatever the therapist wants to hear.

I came to the terrible realization that, for all of my education and knowledge, I'm always "the dummy in the room" when it comes to real life experience. I will always be that "different little girl" who stepped into her kindergarten classroom unprepared to succeed. I kept hoping one day I would accomplish enough to prove that teacher wrong. It never happened.

There are all kinds of false assumptions, in life. (Also, the dog has woken me up.) So, I have taken the time to read what the author believes is too much thinking, or what is the wrong way to think (some hours before dawn.)

Are these autistic traits?


If we are to be strict, most of the people, here, (spergie autistes) should rely on technical competence.


In other words, to coerce people, mentally, rather than by-force.

Julian Baggini's definition of 'too much intelligence' sounds just like the traits of a narcissistic sociopath, triggering others.

I have done it, as an experiment -- not to gentle people -- but a couple of real bastards. Weaponized autism.

You are organized, abstract, and have high mental energy. You can easily drive someone into the ground, if you want to fixate / obsess.

But, the highest form of trolling is supposed to be getting them to complete a task, of your own choosing.

Or, you can call that 'too much intelligence,' if you think it is wrong.

Good point. I am suitably chastised.

I think deep down I didn't really believe it would work and didn't see the point. It felt like wallpapering over the cracks rather than proper restoration.

We really are in a shaming intellegence era it seems and it is really sickening.

The author is confusing intellegence with inflexiblility that causes one to use intellegence poorly.

I think you can be too intelligent but maybe in the wrong way. What I mean is there is a case of knowing too much so there should be a balance of different types of intelligence.

They often say that depression is a sign of intelligence for some people so there definitely is a dark side.

NO whens the show on the tv and I get every question right and my family don’t get any right I like it.